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It will be difficult to remove the sanding sealer without sanding of the veneer, I tried something similar once and ended up removing the veneer. Long time ago I saw some post about a guy that was able to remove the sealer from the body of a similar PRS kit (maybe the same) and was able to do really nice PRS type finish on it. I wish I could find that post, I don't even remember if it was on this forum.

Couldn't find the thread on the magma attack, maybe its been removed

On my post I meant the Magma, but the Tele is equally beautiful, would love to see the pics of the finished guitar, thanks for sharing this info, I am going to try it.

You are the famous Drak, impressive work, I've done a few quitled maple tops but nothing as good looking as the picture shown above, the bookmatched grain pattern is awesome, and it actually looks like fire. How do you achieve the awesome 3D effect. Any special tricks? Or is it what we all know, dye dark sand back, dye with the light colors, and clear coat.

Oh my how do you do this?? It is almost 3D, I guess it is dying dark sanding back several times, I've done it, I have never achieved a finish so good looking as this one. Anyone?

Thanks for the info I hadn't heard of drybrushing before, it seems like it would yield better results, I already started another project, and it also came out much darker, but looks better I think. I will do this on another body, it didn't come out bad, and it takes to much time to finish a guitar, I would rather start a new project, this guitar isn't for me it is for my brother and he loved the results, so I'm cool with it, it is just not what I had in mind thanks again, will try the brush on the next one Jose

That might work, dying with lemon yellow first, would you suggest applying the blue with tinted clear, or on to the wood directly. by they way what is OTT?. I will try this on a quilt maple telecaster body. Thanks

Last time I checked. Look up Ormsby guitars. His Work is amazing, those guitars look awesome

I have tried putting only tinted clear, and the figuring doesn't show as much, I guess the trick would be a combination of both, that is what I will try next time.

Thanks for the input, I guess it will be a trial an error till I get the color I want, it just gets expensive , I will try this again on another body and see if I can get closer to that warmoth finish. Thanks Jose

I wiped the dye. I did lightly tint the clear with blue, and finished with clear, would spraying the dye give better results? It depends, if you were able to get a good even base coat of dye then spraying wouldn't help. If you tinted and sprayed to add the burst (this would have been my suggestion if you had not). Tinted clear will keep the figure lively. The "stain black and sand back" will give you a look that does not move as well as the light plays on it(you are painting the shadows on), although it looks good in a picture. How about a picture of what you came up with. You may have a knockout look, and we are just talking about a subtle shading adjustment. Here is a picture, as you can see the blueish green became green and it is much darker than the color I wanted to achieve

I wiped the dye. I did lightly tint the clear with blue, and finished with clear, would spraying the dye give better results?

I applied Dark Blue dye first, then I let it dry sanded it back almost to bare wood, then mixed a blue with a little bit of yellow because I wanted to achieve that turquoise color and applied it, the final result was nice, but the color was not what I expected, after I applied the clear coats, the color changed even more and looks green now.

Hello I have been experimenting with dyes for some time, and last time I tried doing something similar to warmoth's blue burst Even though my finished guitar didn't come out bad, I didn't get the same effect, I tried using a dark blue sanding back and applying a lighter blue mixed with a little bit of green. for the burst I decided to go with green, cause I wanted to make it somewhat different, but the center I wanted the same color. The guitar came out fine but the look is not as good. Does anyone have an idea on how to achieve this effect, or even this color, Mine came out a much darker shade of a blueish green. Thanks in advance for any input on the subject